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Motorcycle Forum / General / Sportbikes / March 2006adding sliders
What kind of modification is required on a fairing if I want to buy frame sliders because I don't want to hurt my baby you know what I mean. Thanks. forgot to mention the baby I have is a 2003 Yamaha R6 > What kind of modification is required on a fairing if I want to buy frame > sliders because I don't want to hurt my baby you know what I mean. Thanks. >What kind of modification is required on a fairing if I want to buy frame >sliders because I don't want to hurt my baby you know what I mean. Thanks. Well you are gonna have to hurt it!!! Ok...maybe. Depends on the bike and on the sliders. Some bikes you can mount sliders without needing to cut a hole in the fairing. Some bikes you can't. Also some sliders are mounted with a bracket that relocates the slider in such a way that you don't need to cut the fairing such as the sliders on my bike, see picture below for an example: http://www.somrek.net/DSC_0025.jpg As you see the slider is mounted on a bracket and no fairing needed to be cut. Another pic here from the other side: http://www.somrek.net/DSC_0031.jpg -- Stephan 2003 Yamaha R6 Those are very nice pics. I have the same bike but blue. What is the name of the company your sliders made from? >>What kind of modification is required on a fairing if I want to buy frame >>sliders because I don't want to hurt my baby you know what I mean. Thanks. [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > Stephan > 2003 Yamaha R6 >Those are very nice pics. I have the same bike but blue. What is the name of >the company your sliders made from? Thank you, as far as the company goes. I honestly don't know. The bike came with those sliders when I bought it. I will check tomorrow morning if I can find any kind of part number, sticker, logo, anything on them and if I do, I will let you know. Oh by the way if you could, please put responses at the bottom not at the top. =) -- Stephan 2003 Yamaha R6 > What kind of modification is required on a fairing if I want to buy frame > sliders because I don't want to hurt my baby you know what I mean. Thanks. You generally have to cut holes in the fairing for the sliders to protrude through. (Sliders that hide under the fairing won't do you much good.) Note: not all bikes were designed with slider installation in mind. It's almost an impossible job on some bikes. Pete > What kind of modification is required on a fairing if I want to buy frame > sliders because I don't want to hurt my baby you know what I mean. Thanks. Why would your baby ever require sliders? You plan on throwing the child from a moving car? > What kind of modification is required on a fairing if I want to buy frame > sliders because I don't want to hurt my baby you know what I mean. Thanks. I just cut holes in f4i for sliders, it isn't hard. You just need to be careful. But I don't think the Yamaha require any cutting, you can get an "offset" slider. I've seen them on R1s. Bryan >> What kind of modification is required on a fairing if I want to buy frame >> sliders because I don't want to hurt my baby you know what I mean. Thanks. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >But I don't think the Yamaha require any cutting, you can get an "offset" >slider. I've seen them on R1s. Yup I have those on my R6 as well. Just no idea yet who actually makes them =) >>>What kind of modification is required on a fairing if I want to buy frame >>>sliders because I don't want to hurt my baby you know what I mean. Thanks. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Yup I have those on my R6 as well. Just no idea yet who actually makes > them =) The 1st time you lay down on the offset sliders, you will wish you cut the fairing. They are weak. The force exerted on a standard slider (which sometimes fail) are multiplied by the offset adapter. Those are really only good if you knock it over in the garage. (And they will bend then, too) Slders don't always save your plastic. My last low side was going swimmingly until the bike hit the rumble strip and started to flip. Bad things happen. Either have the ability to repair or have good ins.  SignatureGopher Greg '77 CB750K Stock '78 CB750K AHRMA '00 ZG1000 Stock '96 Ducati 900SS Former track bike '01 GSXR750 Current race bike **********pull 'mychain' to reply*********** ("I've abandoned the idea of trying to appear a normal, pleasant person. I had to accept myself as I was, even if no one else could accept me. For the rest of my life I would continue to say precisely the wrong thing, touch people in the raw and be generally unpopular. I had a natural gift for it" W. F. Temple) >>>>What kind of modification is required on a fairing if I want to buy frame >>>>sliders because I don't want to hurt my baby you know what I mean. Thanks. [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >swimmingly until the bike hit the rumble strip and started to flip. >Bad things happen. Either have the ability to repair or have good ins. That is my concern honestly as well with those sliders, though I have to say when I looked at how these were installed, I was reasonably impressed. The offset actually is not that far and they are very strongly reinforced from behind and they appear to be connected to the frame and engine at multiple points. I don't see a simple drop in the garage bending these. Nothing of course can protect a bike from hitting an object in a low side and flipping. At least we don't have speed bumps or rumble strips here =) Really around here where I live, I am more worried about guard rails in the event of a low side than the low-side itself. Most the roads are country roads so chances are good that the bike wouldn't spend much time, if even any, sliding on the asphalt. It would end up in the grass rather quickly unless of course there is a guard rail in the way ready to stop the bike...and me. That is why on many of the guard rails here you find foam padding around the posts so riders don't cut off their legs or other body parts... http://www.somrek.net/DSCF0037.jpg On the other hand the way I see it, if you actually adhere to speed limits, the road signs warning you of the sharp turn ahead and lower your speed to the posted limit for the turn accordingly, chances of a low-side are reasonably non-existant without external influences such as oil / excessive gravel or such. Bottom line, repair ability, insurance, frame sliders, all are great. 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